Anything But Gray

Kim and I talked on the phone for a really long time on Friday night.
I was talking about moving and getting shit done and wanting to enjoy my last month here, not just stress out about packing and she says "Why don't I take the kids when I go with Danielle and Joey tomorrow? We can do the plant sale and then we'll take them out to the beach to do our own little sea thing…" So Kim and Danielle showed up at about 9am yesterday and packed up Thing 1 and Thing 2 and away they went until Kim brought them back at around 1:30ish!

I had Zak stay home because there were a few things that I needed him to go through with me, so we did that and we got so much done.

Kim says they were good, Ben had a couple melt downs, but for the most part, they were good. I guess poor Danielle had to carry him out of her house because he didn't want to leave…lol.  (For the record, this is no small feat because my kids are not light. They are built like me and Zak…solid. And they weigh a friggin' ton…)

And I must say double kudos to Kim because not only did she take them, she took them being a slight bit hung from a enjoying some wine on Friday night. And kudos to Danielle because she was more than willing to go along with the plan.

I am so lucky to have such awesome friends.

it's late, but couldn't let the day go by without saying it….

Hope your day was good…well, as good as it can be for someone so OLD!
ha!!

See ya soon,

Love
me

Kelso, as in Ashton Kutcher on That 70's Show and also the Ashton Kutcher of Punk'd. Oh and he's that hottie that Demi Moore married….you know? The one everyone said wouldn't last….yeah…that one. 🙂

Anyway, he was talking in this article about being the happiliest married guy on the planet. (I swear, he used that word! Happiliest….) And he says this

"It's like if you … got hired at a new job and you showed up and didn't work,
you'd probably get fired pretty quickly," Kutcher said. "Once they get married,
(people) think, 'All right, the work is done,' when really you just got the
job."

Wow. I gotta say I'm impressed and I shouldn't be. Obviously the guy knows what he is doing if he managed to date and then marry Demi Moore. I was just impressed with the comment and thought I'd share.

If more married people went into marriage realizing that is, indeed, going to be hard and a lot of work at times, more marriages would last, I think. Sometimes people go into it and they expect a joy ride and it so ain't like that. LOL
Well….at least it's not like that all the time.
Just a lot of the time, if you're one of the lucky ones….

Conversation today….

Zak, me and Marky (I know this is horrible English…piss off…it's my blog and I can write in poor English at 11:30pm at night if I want to…ha!) are hanging out at the house before the day starts. Zak made some hard boiled eggs for us, for breakfast.

    Zak, as he's handing me a few hard boiled eggs. "Don't eat the yolk in all of them."

Me  "Why not? But I like the yolk.

Zak "It's not good for you to eat too many of them."

Me  "Why are they so good, then? Why did God put them in there if He didn't want you to eat them?"

Marky (said in a totally indignant, I-can't-believe-this-idiot-is-my-sister voice) "He put them in there so we would have more chickens, you dumb ass."

Uh…..good point, bro…..really good point.

I have no idea what that random quotation mark is doing in there….
<sigh>
This is not good to have some random quotation mark that I can't get to go away on a post about me being a dumb blonde….ya with me on that???

ugh!

Here's an interesting article I saw this morning….

Mom's pay

I'll be waiting patiently for my check.
For 7+ years…..and I want interest for the back pay.

You can just make that out to My Mommy Rocks Inc.
Thank you!

<wink>

My day got much better. I called my friend Kim and I met up with her to go for a walk.
Wait a second….if it's through the woods and kind of muddy and hilly (is that a word?)..that counts as a hike, right?
I don't think Kim will let me call that a hike….She will so give me shit if try to pass that off as a hike. lol. Maybe I can call it a mini-hike?

ANYWAY….Kim has very much been my "go to" friend when I am on the verge of a mental breakdown. Her logic and calmness always settles me down. Not to say that my other friends aren't logical….but there are just certain times that I know I really need to hang out with Kim and talk. Today was one of those days and the mini-hike and conversation really, really helped.

Why was I so upset?
Moving….
Frankly, I'm scared out of my mind. I have spent almost my whole adult life here and as much as I have longed for the day when I get to leave, it's still a little bit (a lot a bit) scary. And for every part of me that is super excited there is equal parts of me that are heartbroken. I love my friends. I adore my friends. I appreciate them, I am grateful for them, I need them. It is going to be so hard to leave them. So hard.

Saturday "the girls" and I got together. Kim and Danielle are "the girls". We drank wine, (2 and a half bottles…oops! lol) ate good food, Danielle did our nails and we just talked while the kids played. It was SO nice. And I am going to miss Saturday afternoons like that.

Sunday, Ceci and Kayla came downstairs and they were going to get something to eat. Ceci tells me, get dressed, get the kids dressed, let's all go….Ben threw a fit and didn't want to go so Zak hung out with him while us girls went. it was cool, actually it was really cool because the power went out right when we were finished with our meal. I have never been in a place of business (not counting jobs…) when the power went out….so that was kind of  neat. lol Anyway…little things like that, I am going to miss.  Ceci's morning visits….hell, Ceci everything. I don't think I will ever be able to put into words how much I hate having to leave her. I could write a thousand poems, a million letters…and I could never express just how hard it's going to be.

Ceci christmas gift from me 2007

I know there is so much I am getting back that I have missed for the last 17 years……and when I am excited and when I talk about how I can't wait….I so hope all "my" people here realize how very much I will miss them and that I absolutely hate that I have to give them up…

It's just not fair……

I hate feeling like this.
I hate flip flopping…
I hate being scared.
I hate not being a future teller.
I hate…

whatfuckingever.
Just fuck it all.

this day sucks.

People has got the scoop…the pics, quotes from Mariah….I can't wait to read this!

I am intrigued by the sentence…"their plans for kids!"
Cause this the woman who just less than a month ago said something along the lines of she would feel "violated" if she had kids. uh….I thought that was truly one of the most bizarre statements I have ever heard a woman make. So I'm really hoping this falling in love thing has made her have a change of heart or something!
I am really curious about that !! LOL

Cannot WAIT to see the pictures too!

It's Tuesday….it's 6:17pm…and I spent almost the entire day packing.
I am drained..physically and emotionally…just drained.
But I wanted to do this…

Loathe

• Moving

Love

• Moving

enough said.

I am so excited that this is done!
It's a canvas with the lyrics to the song Godspeed (Sweet Dreams) by The Dixie Chicks.
It's one of my songs that I used to sing to Ben all the time when he was a baby.
I am really, really proud of this piece.
I've been working on it off and on for about a week or so.
When I open my etsy store, I'd like offer "custom" canvas's like this, for people.
So I'm going to do a few more, in different styles.
This one has a distressed look and I love it!
I'm going to do one for Jaime, with the song Butterfly Kisses and hers will be more of a "clean" look.
I cannot wait to hang this up!
And I cannot wait to do more!
lol.

Ben Godspeed canvas (7)

Ben Godspeed canvas (4)

Ben Godspeed canvas (6)

Ben Godspeed canvas (2)

Ben Godspeed canvas (8)